Our main objective is to study nutrition in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease and related metabolic disorders. The working hypothesis is that a Paleolithic diet (the Paleolithic is the time period 2,000,000-10,000 years BP), basically meat, fish, vegetables, fruit and nuts, has benefits even compared with prudent diets based on whole-grain cereals and low-fat milk.

The basic notions are that

1) foods are appropriate for any given species if they were regularly consumed during most of its prior evolution;

2. Lindeberg, S. Modern human phsyiology with respect to evolutionary adaptations that relate to diet in the past, in The Evolution of Hominid Diets: integrating approaches to the study of Palaeolithic subsistence, M.P. Richards and J.J. Hublin, Editors. in press, Elsevier.